From the category archives:

Environment

Why are people so unkind?

December 14, 2009

Okay, so I’m mixing my Indians (Malaysian/Sri Lankan Tamils, actually) with that title, but you get the point. The Wampanoag tribe of Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts have applied for their land’s status as a Traditional Cultural Property on the National Register of Historic Places in a last ditch bid to stop a wind farm being [...]

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It’s official: belief in anthropogenic global warming is basically a religious belief. Sort of.

November 5, 2009

Justice Michael Burton ruled that Tim Nicholson’s belief in climate change is akin to a religious belief, and can thus file for unfair dismissal on that ground. While Nicholson sees this as a victory for his cause, I’m still surprised more people aren’t complaining ‘it’s scientific fact, not religious belief’. Justice Burton last year ruled [...]

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Believers and skeptics

October 27, 2009

An English property developer has challenged his sacking as unlawful, and claims his belief in global warming is a religious belief they are illegally discriminating against. Tim Nicholson, former head of “sustainability” at Grainger PLC, claims he was fired because “his views on the environment are so strong that they led to clashes with other [...]

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And yea, when the pigs have been slaughtered the streets shall be filled with rubbish

September 20, 2009

Following our earlier story on Mubarak’s culling of Egypt’s pigs, primarily owned by Coptic Orthodox Christians, recent reports show that the streets of Cairo are filled with uncollected rubbish. This is due to the fact that Zabbaleen, Coptic Christians who go door to door collecting rubbish, used to feed the organic scraps to the pigs [...]

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Green Muslims are OK…

September 15, 2009

Technological integration into worship is always a fascinating topic. I am not just referring to the phenomenon of worshippers commenting on communion via Twitter or Facebook, but the more supposedly mundane aspects such as audio-visual design of the space, and engineering for efficient systems of moving people. Jennifer Hattam at TreeHugger reported recently on the [...]

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